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             Effects of Social Unrest upon the Develping Civil War
             In Englad during the 1600's, prior to the civil war the line between differing political ideas were not so clearly defined. Just like the line between state and family were absent during this time. With in the country the right to resist had become associated with the medieval idea that the political power resides in the people. So the duty of the people was passive action and complete obedience to the patriarchal and monarchal heads of family and state. This belief made the Tudor monarchs almost an absolute power with in their country. However, somewhere there was a breaking of powers in the patriarchal society. This led to the dissolution of the political theory of the family as the social center of politics and social order. Out of this movement different political ideas began to emerge and work their way into even the common man's idea. Also, this change in political consienceness leads to civil unrest and an overturn of government and thier old commonwealth policies.
             Many Factors within the state brought about this change and civil war. The agragarian problem, the religious difference and distinctions, divine soveriegnity being questioned, common men seeking individual enterprise and examining class distinction, the poverty of the crown and the growing weakness of the king. However all of these elements seem to lead to a break in the political hiearchy that had existed through out feudal England. This social disorder seems to be the main cause behind this civil unrest . However, the civil disorder originates through the common man's changing perceptions of religion, law and his place with the state and class. These evolving issues help to progress England into a more modern state while also thrusting them into a civil war that lasts from 1642 until 1648.
             Through out Tudor-Stuart England the feudal system kept men confined with their place in society by a hierarch...

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